JAWRA HIGHLIGHTS – JUNE 2017

Wigington summarizes the purpose of Water Commentaries and Reviews (WCR)

Water Commentaries and Reviews (WCR)

Hoag et al. (2017), in the first WCR paper, explores difficulties associated with water quality trading for nonpoint source pollution and identify physical, economic, and institutional requirements for successful water quality trading.

Featured Series – SWAT Applications for Emerging Hydrologic and Water Quality Challenges

This is a recurring series of papers focused on the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT).

Shao et al. developed an open source GIS-based decision support system for creating best management best management practice scenarios and simulating economic costs and water quantity/quality benefits at farm field, subbasin, and watershed scales.

Pfannerstill et al. propose an evaluation framework that considers both stream discharge and water balance components as evaluation criteria for calibration of SWAT.

Almendinger and Jones developed a SWAT model to estimate load reductions due to selected best management practices and to determine how phosphorus export coefficients scaled with contributing areas.

Other Technical Papers

Griffin and Friedman examine historical variability in annual and growing season precipitation, temperature, and streamflow.